Results 2,961-2,980 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: The summer works scheme is very welcome. It is a great scheme. Under the heading "Severance/Redundancy", I see 255 non-teaching staff and two primary teachers were paid redundancy sums totalling €2,281,664. What circumstances gave rise to these redundancies? What kind of scheme was it? Was it voluntary or compulsory?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: I presume they were outside the natural retirement age so there must have been a reason for the redundancies.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: How were the non-statutory amounts determined?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: There is a total legal cost here of €251,000. What was the general nature of the claims involved? The average compensation awarded was €6,500. Could Mr. Ó Foghlú tell us more about these claims?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: The interesting point is that the average claim was €6,500 but the legal cost per claim was €18,000. That seems extraordinary. Why are legal costs almost three times the average payment? Is there anything the Department can do to reduce legal costs? The average claim is €6,500 yet the average payment to solicitors I presume is €18,000 per claim.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: It sounds very high with an average payment of €6,500 and legal costs of €18,000, which is three times the payment. I suppose that is as good as I am going to get. Is there any way to reduce them?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: Is this relating basically to accidents in schools?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: Do most of these go to court or are they settled out of court?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: There were ten new cases of fraud and suspected fraud and irregularities in 2015. What is the nature of these and how much money do they involve?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: How does the Department penalise schools if they are found to be guilty of fraud?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: Does all the fraud concern numbers of pupils?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: The settlement with the Revenue Commissioners in March amounted to €1,359,358 for the period 2010-2013. Why was the Department not tax compliant in respect of these payments?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: What arrangements are in place to ensure this will not happen again? Is more scrutiny needed? Does the Department need an internal auditor, for example?
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects (22 Mar 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 94. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the results of the review of the Tower Road and Piltown junction on the N24 conducted by Transport Infrastructure Ireland will be published; when funding will be provided to TII to commence works on the safety measures recommended within the review results; whether his Department is in direct contact with Kilkenny County Council to...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Responsibilities (22 Mar 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 108. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will clarify the legislation governing the release of results from a Director of Public Prosecutions investigation to a person (details supplied) who was the subject of an investigation; if the findings can be released to this person directly; the procedure for procuring same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14402/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (22 Mar 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason it has taken 14 weeks for the carer's allowance file of a person (details supplied) to be sent from the carer's allowance section in Sligo to the social welfare appeals office in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14377/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Waiting Times (22 Mar 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 168. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the average waiting time for a decision on a carer's allowance application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14558/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (21 Mar 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures being taken to ensure efficient roll-out of the national broadband scheme to rural areas in particular; if he envisages that current timelines will be met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13937/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Better Energy Homes Scheme (21 Mar 2017)
Bobby Aylward: 1143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if there will be any changes to the current criteria of the SEAI's better energy homeowner scheme which may cause an increase in the costs of the associated works for homeowners that avail of the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14019/17]
- Public Accounts Committee: HSE's Patients' Private Property Accounts 2015
HSE Financial Statement 2015: Note 13 re Fair Deal Scheme
Health Repayments Scheme Donations Fund 2015 (9 Mar 2017) Bobby Aylward: They do charge extra, though, for extras like hairdressers.